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In the Time of the Butterflies : a Novel by Alvarez, Julia. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is In the Time of the Butterflies : a Novel about?
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is'beautiful, heartbreaking and alive... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo.'(Concepción de León, New York Times)Don't miss Alvarez's new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, available now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through th
Who reads In the Time of the Butterflies : a Novel?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alvarez, Julia.
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781448733705
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (345 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14